Let's Talk About Sex!

Did you hear? A little independent movie called Sex and the City is coming out in two weeks! Have you heard of it?

Ha ha. Kidding aside, there's an article in today's New York Times about how women are planning on watching the movies—many having concocted elaborate viewing plans.

So, what about you? Are you psyched or oversexed?

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I have to say, having lived in NYC for the past seven years, I, like a lot of my peers, have a love-hate relationship with the girls. First off, of COURSE we identify with them—and, obviously, I'd see myself as a Samantha character, not for any sexual misadventures, but more because Samantha is a self-driven woman who goes out there and makes things her own, but, at her core, is terrified that intimacy will replace that independence. And then, of course, all too often, I find myself sitting with my laptop in my studio apartment, writing, and thinking—who came first? Carrie or the AnyGirl writer? And, like a lot of people who live in NYC, I've enjoyed seeing the girls enjoy the landmarks of the city: I've eaten cupcakes at Magnolia Bakery and gotten too drunk at Bungalow 8 (once—and was so excited to have gotten in that I still talk about the incident in gory detail FIVE YEARS LATER), taken trapeze classes (an AMAZINGLY fun birthday present a few years back) and, during one ridiculously misguided moment, found myself in Barneys the day before a job interview, about to purchase a three-digit pair of Jimmy Choos. Thankfully, I didn't, because I realized—at that moment—I was subconsciously trying to channel my inner Carrie, and I needed to ditch her and concentrate on ME. But I didn't come to NYC for those experiences, and I always saw SATC through the filmy, champagne bubble glazed lens it was created with. It's a big fairy-tale view of a city that can really be dauntingly hard on a single woman, and I'm anxious to see how the ladies have settled down. My plans for the movie? A morning showing with homemade mimosas, some good friends from college, and croissants. Yum!

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